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Our ADR Awareness 1-Day training will cover many of the basic principles of handling and transporting dangerous goods by road.
Some who may work in warehouses may have to handle or carry dangerous goods, but do not need the full ADR certification as the amount of a certain dangerous good they carry is well below the threshold.
This course is designed to meet the needs of those who may not work with raw hazardous goods, but must understand the key principles of dealing with products which could become hazardous when exposed to another element.
Upon completing this course, you should be able to:
- Understand the importance of ADR Awareness
- Know basic emergency procedures
- Understand the importance of keeping within load thresholds
- How to store and segregate certain products which may contain a hazardous compound
- Know why it is important to properly pack and label dangerous goods
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Anyone who is planning on driving a vehicle carrying dangerous goods in scope of the regulations must, by law, obtain and hold a valid ADR licence.
Those who may handle dangerous goods, or are only involved in the packing process, do not need this licence.
ADR awareness is for those who:
- Come into contact with dangerous goods, such as the packing, handling & loading process
- Are involved in the process of carrying dangerous goods, but are not in the need of a fully certified ADR training course
- Anyone who fits within the ADR exemptions
Course Overview
The ADR awareness 1-day course will include:
- Why ADR awareness is important and who does it apply to
- Health and Safety brief
- Identification of classes
- Understanding what labels are for what classes. Also being able to identify what type of dangerous good is what class
- This can also include the fire triangle and how that is important to understand.
- Emergency procedures/PPE/ Basic first-aid & fire extinguishing
- This can be from how to treat someone with burns, to how to operate a fire extinguisher and what equipment is needed in the building to help prevent the spread of a dangerous good becoming hazardous to individuals.
- The load threshold and limited quantities
- What these are identified as and why they are important
- Instances if the load threshold is exceeded
- Understanding how certain products mixed together could become dangerous/harmful to the environment/others
- This will show common household products that, when combined, can cause corrosiveness, explosion, toxic gas etc.
- Could also reference HSE classifications, which details how medicines and cosmetics tend to have small quantities of dangerous goods.
- Storage & segregation rules
- See HSE- Segregation of hazardous materials
- Also relating to the 800ml / 80cm legal requirement between pallets.
- Also the difference of palette sizes- (A euro palette is 800mm wide, whereas a UK palette us 1000mm wide)
- Understanding the importance of properly packed and labelled dangerous goods
- What these are identified as and why they are important
The end of the training will result in a test given to the students, who upon completion, if passed, will receive a certificate of competence to show that they have recognised the training and can implement their learning when needed.
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Portsmouth
2 Start Ltd (Portsmouth), Unit 4 Shawcross Industrial Estate, Ackworth Road, Hilsea, Portsmouth, PO3 5HU
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Theale
2 Start Ltd (Theale), Site C The Quarry, Deans Copse Road, Theale, RG7 4GZ
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2 Start Ltd (Southampton), Unit 2 Four Dells Farm, Poles Lane, Otterbourne, Winchester, SO21 2DY
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Reading
2 Start Ltd (Reading), Unit 32 Youngs Industrial Estate, Paices Hill, Reading, RG7 4PW
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2 Start Ltd (Worthing), The Vinery Ind Est, Unit 54 & 55, Poling, Worthing, BN18 9PY
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